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- Title:
Lake Geneva and Mount Blanc
- Former Title(s):
Lake of Geneva, with Mount Blanc from the Lake
- Additional Title(s):
Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc, from the lake
- Date:
- 1802 to 1805
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink and scraping out on slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 28 7/8 x 44 5/8 inches (73.3 x 113.3 cm), Frame: 35 5/8 x 50 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches (90.5 x 128.6 x 3.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Scratched inscription lower left: "JMWT"; in black watercolor, lower right: "Arrete"
Watermark: 1804 (letters)
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "JMW Turner. RA."; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6301
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boats | cattle | Grand Tour | lake | landscape | marine art | mountains | sheep | swimmers | trees
- Associated Places:
- France | Geneva | Geneva, Lake | Mont Blanc
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5504
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